Unknown german ww2 wing. Aircraft? Flying bomb? Rocket?

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Asked the seller about dimension and weight. His answer:
"Am still working. But I think I know the dimensions. Approx. 60 cm long, 28 cm deep and 5 cm thick. All approximate dimensions. Weight about 4-5 kilograms."

For comperison to o.p. piece: 105 cm long, 38 cm deep and 10 cm thick. Weight about 2.8 kg.
 
It certainly does look as if it is made of cement. Not unique at this stage of the War with the shortage of strategic materials. The Blohm & Voss Bv 246 Hagelkorn had high aspect ratio wings formed of cement around a steel spar. One wonders how good the aero elasticity was.
 

The seller wrote in the ad that the part is made of duralumin
 
In the 7th photograph on the first page, there are some things that look like struts in the backgroud, plus something (padded?). I don't know if this is relevant or whether it's a red herring, but it might be worth asking the owner what they are.
 
Hi together,
maybe it's the hull of Sondergerät SG 113 "Förstersonde", a special weapon used to shoot vertically 2+2 missiles downwards on tanks when flying over them. Rockets were automatically released when passing the tanks by a fluxgate-magnetometer - in german "Förstersonde" named as its inventor Friedrich Förster.
Here an example mounted to a FW190 F-8:

Manufacturer Rheinmetall-Borsig/Hermann-Göring-Werke, caliber barrel 7,7cm, caliber projectile 4,8cm, armor piercing (tungsten core), weight projectile 1,9kg, weight complete unloaded 48kg. complete length 1650mm, length of barrel 1600mm, muzzle speed 650 m/s, recoilless.

Would be quite a rare part, if it would match, no doubt!
Hope it helps.

Spielkind
 

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Very nice find but it lacks the 8 distinctive bolt holes on each surface and has an attachment angle on each surface that the mystery item lacks. That said you have opened up a new can of worms that may well lead to the answer, especially given that the mystery item is painted the same colour "top and bottom". That, and the colouring, supports the idea it fits under the aircraft which was why I first looked for a ventral fin.
 
That's something I never knew of before. Very informative. Thanks.
 
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